Hold Me Tight®​Couples Workshop, San Diego

The Hold Me Tight®Workshop is based on Dr. Sue Johnson’s best-selling book, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and attachment theory. The workshop is designed around these seven conversations that have been shown to be essential to successful relationships.

Upcoming Workshops:

July 14-15, 2018November 3-4, 2018February 16-17, 2019Saturday and Sunday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day $765 per couple​Includes: healthy, tasty catered lunches, snacks,beverages and workbook. (dietary preferences of attendees are always taken into consideration).

The format and schedule include:

Educational talks

Video presentations

Couples exercises (in private, not in front of the group)

Some Group Discussion (Entirely Voluntary)

During this relationship enrichment workshop you will have the opportunity to:

Discover the key moments that shape a love relationship

Affirm strengths in your relationship

Address negative interaction patterns

﻿Understand what is really underlying your conflicts

Learn how to repair and forgive

Enhance your emotional and physical closeness

Become more accessible, responsive and emotionally engaged with each other.

Experience engaging, fun, and interactive presentations.

Practice as a couple in private setting (Not required to share in front of the group)

​​​Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is the leading approach to helping couples both resolve relationship distress and nurture effective interpersonal functioning and strong, lasting bonds. Feelings are often hidden, unexpressed or misunderstood. In EFT, we help couples learn how to deal with their feelings together, reach towards each other, and be responsive in more loving and positive ways.The format involves informative lectures sprinkled with videos, which include watching couples learning the same methods that we are covering in the workshop. There is time to do exercises in private with your partner drawn from EFT. We teach couples how to move out of isolation and frustration towards security, emotional safety, and long lasting relationship satisfaction.

Research shows that 7 out of 10 couples that go through EFT move from marital distress to marital satisfaction.

A team of EFT Trained Therapists will be available for guidance throughout the weekend Reasons to attend this weekend retreat:

If you want to feel more connected to your partner

If you want to iron out some kinks

If you want to deepen your understanding of each other

If you have drifted apart or are in distress

If you are considering marriage and want to know what a healthy marriage looks like and how to have one

If you want to spend the weekend bonding with your partner

If you are a therapist wanting to learn more about Emotionally Focused Therapy (CEU's are available for MFT's, LCSW's, Educational Psychologists and Licensed Counselors)

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The effectiveness of the approach taught in this program has been demonstrated in over 25 years of clinical research. Emotionally Focused Therapy has an outstanding track record for helping save marriages and enrich relationships and has been written up in many of the most prominent academic and scientific journals, magazines, and newspapers. Dr. Sue Johnson, the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy has written the Hold Me Tight Book and Workshop to make this information more available to the public.

​Cancellation PolicyYour registration fee is non-refundable, but transferable if you are able to notify me of your inability to come at least one week before the workshop. If something comes up that prevents you from being able to attend, your registration fee is transferable to another one of my Hold Me Tight Workshops for Couples within 12 months of the registration date.

However, if you end up canceling with less than a week's notice, and you want to transfer your registration to one of my Hold Me Tight Workshops within the next 12 months, a $300 transfer fee will be applied.